Central Yharnam has a ton of great shortcuts. Really worth exploring, some of them are from the sewers and one of them will make getting to Father G after CB a snap. I farmed up a bit before my CB kill by just trying to find them. I lost a few a soul piles worth of XP some times but still worth it. You can skip the werewolves with one for example at the upstairs of the house by the bridge. Even farm them by pulling them back to the house. I'll spoiler stuff like that if you want me too in the future but it will make central a much more friendly and controlled place once you unlock them. Especially since you can find upgrade mats as well and +1 your favorite weapons at least. The armor in the Sewer has slightly more fire and poison resist but less physical armor than the set you can buy from the well merchant in Hunters Dream. Still it could save you some farm time. I bought the Yharnam set before finding the sewer set YMMV.
I'm offline becuase I forgot my PSN password and just wanted to play rather than fix it. It was autosaved from just after the PS hack in 2011 or something so I don't remember it on the PS3 it just worked.
I'll fix it this weekend. I do want to try some coop and I miss having messages. On the other hand I like to at least try soloing all the bosses myself first before I do coop. Just kind of one of my things on a first run.